The senses may "sing and dance round Reason's fine-wrought throne"
— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Date
1783
Metaphor
The senses may "sing and dance round Reason's fine-wrought throne"
Metaphor in Context
Chand.
Considerate age, my Lord, views motives,
And not acts; when neither warbling voice,
Nor trilling pipe is heard, nor pleasure sits
With trembling age; the voice of Conscience then,
Sweeter than music in a summer's eve,
Shall warble round the snowy head, and keep
Sweet symphony to feather'd angels, sitting
As guardians round your chair; then shall the pulse
Beat slow, and taste, and touch, and sight, and sound, and smell,
That sing and dance round Reason's fine-wrought throne,
Shall flee away, and leave him all forlorn;
Yet not forlorn if Conscience is his friend.
Considerate age, my Lord, views motives,
And not acts; when neither warbling voice,
Nor trilling pipe is heard, nor pleasure sits
With trembling age; the voice of Conscience then,
Sweeter than music in a summer's eve,
Shall warble round the snowy head, and keep
Sweet symphony to feather'd angels, sitting
As guardians round your chair; then shall the pulse
Beat slow, and taste, and touch, and sight, and sound, and smell,
That sing and dance round Reason's fine-wrought throne,
Shall flee away, and leave him all forlorn;
Yet not forlorn if Conscience is his friend.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "throne" and "reason" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1783).
See Poetical Sketches. By W.B. (London: [s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]). <Link to ESTC> <Link to 1868 reprint in Google Books>
See Poetical Sketches. By W.B. (London: [s.n.], Printed in the year MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]). <Link to ESTC> <Link to 1868 reprint in Google Books>
Date of Entry
07/19/2004
